Remnant King's Concubine

Chapter 117 Suspected
"Isn't it more unfortunate for you to come? Besides, Yunluo is a princess! Can it be the same? Is it still a big deal?"

Zhan Rong said again: "Because she is a princess, the women don't dare to say it. The women are still from the Zhou family, and they are like the gossip woman who fears that the world will not be chaotic. She is an enemy of the princess and deliberately throws stones into trouble! I don't know. People thought that the Zhou family had an enmity with the princess and Tai Fumei, so the empress dowager and the emperor were involved? This is the princess's personal family affairs, why bother to make such a fuss?"

After hearing this, the Empress Dowager spoke right in the middle, and couldn't help nodding: "Her concerns are somewhat justified."

Hearing that she agreed with him, Zhan Rong breathed a sigh of relief, and continued to say to Qin Yunguang: "And if you make up a reason or refuse to enter the palace without giving a reason, isn't that a crime of deceiving the emperor? That's why the women didn't say anything. Enter the palace according to the emperor's order in the morning."

"I heard that the person who died was the servant girl of the Zhan family, and she was also the cousin of the son-in-law—when did this cousin of the son-in-law become someone else's maid? Could it be that the son-in-law of the Wansheng Dynasty couldn't even afford to support a maid?"

Zhan Rong paused, and said with emotion: "I'm afraid it's not that I can't afford it, but that I can't support it..."

Qin Yunluo who was kneeling aside moved, lowered her head and said nothing.

"How to say?" Qin Yunguang asked.

"Actually, Xiaoyi—the cousin of the son-in-law—before she died, the women and her family didn't know her identity! She was picked up by my sister-in-law on the road last summer, when she fainted in the rain, weak and dying After my sister-in-law took her back, she asked a doctor to treat her for a long time before she recovered. She asked her why she fell into such a situation, but she didn't say anything, but she cried secretly when no one was around. She cried even more when she saw my sister-in-law's child. Fierce...Because the doctor said she had postpartum disorders, we thought she was forced to give birth to a child, so it's not easy to ask; she was willing to work as a maid in the Zhan family, so the Zhan family took her in... Who knows, when she died, she died suddenly. Crying to see Consort Ding! After Concubine Ding came, we found out that she was the one in the rumors..."

"The man in the rumor? What rumor?"

Zhan Rong glanced at Qin Yunluo secretly, and said in a low voice, "It's hard to say about a commoner's wife..."

"I want you to tell me!"

Even though it was his order, Zhan Rong hesitated for a moment before saying: "It is rumored that the fourth princess cannot have children, so she took a concubine for Concubine Ding, and after the concubine gave birth to a child, she took the child as her own and drove the concubine out of the house... "

When Qin Yunguang heard this, he was furious: "Yunluo! You are so brave!"

"Yunluo knows it's wrong!" Qin Yunluo kowtowed vigorously.

Li Fumei said anxiously: "She already knew she was wrong, let's forget about it!"

No one spoke, only Ding Yuan said: "This matter can be settled, but the princess killed someone, how should it be settled?"

Li Fumei was suffocated, and said anxiously for a long time: "She is your wife! How can you push her to death?"

"It's the princess who got into trouble with the humble minister first!"

"That's because you were wrong first! The princess has cried to me so many times, saying that you disregarded her status as a princess, raised a concubine privately, and had an affair with your cousin!"

"Weichen has never kept a concubine privately!" Ding Yuan said, "The only concubine is the princess who made her own decision and took Xiaoyi! Weichen and Xiaoyi are childhood sweethearts, and they are in love with each other, but there is no fate! Weichen married the princess. I didn't want to have anything to do with her anymore, so I sent her to another courtyard, and hired maids and servants to take care of her! She had been in the other courtyard for more than a year, and I didn't want to be talked about and cause trouble for the princess and myself, so I never went to see her. She! Weichen found a marriage for her, only three days before the bridal sedan chair arrived, but the princess picked her up and insisted on letting her be Weichen's concubine... All the things before have been like a passing cloud, what is right and what is wrong There is no conclusion, I just ask the emperor to uphold justice for the current matter! Can the princess kill someone, can she just let her go?"

As soon as his words fell, the hall fell into a terrible silence.

"The authorities are obsessed, the onlookers are clear—" Qin Yunguang rubbed his forehead, turned his head and asked Ji Liangruo, "Concubine Liang, you are an outsider, what should you do about this matter?"

"The concubine doesn't know." Ji Liangruo said, "The law code only says that murder is paid for, but it doesn't elaborate on the actual situation. The concubine can only say that after this incident, you can add all the situations you want, and there will be more in the future." Similar to a special murder case, if you remember it, you can directly follow the law, and if you don’t remember it, you can discuss it again, so you don’t need to make trouble every time.”

She pretended not to say anything, and Qin Yunguang didn't answer, so he turned around and asked Zhou Yuanzheng, "How did Mr. Zhou say it?"

"There is a saying that if there is law, follow the law, and if there is no law, follow the law-but there is no example of princes and nobles killing people in this dynasty... Although there were such things in the previous dynasty, it is rare to use the previous dynasty in this dynasty."

"Since there is no one in this dynasty, let's learn from it. How about the previous dynasty?"

"A certain prince in the previous dynasty killed a merchant because of his great achievements, and the merchant's behavior was bad, so he was rewarded without punishment—but this matter was criticized by the world, and they all said that the emperor was deliberately protecting him at that time, and the emperor was indeed a fool at that time; Another imperial concubine killed a palace servant with a cane, and her title was removed, and because the maid was given a hundred sticks to die, the concubine was also sentenced to a hundred sticks, but fortunately she survived; the third one was also a princess... It's also killing people in the street—"

"How?" Qin Yunguang asked anxiously.

Zhou Yuan raised his head: "This is Princess Qiancheng from the former dynasty."

Qin Yunguang and the Queen Mother were shocked, Princess Qiancheng...

"I don't know how Princess Qiancheng is?" Ding Yuan asked.

"The emperor didn't kill her at that time." Ji Liangruo said.

Li Fumei heaved a sigh of relief, plopped down on her knees: "The queen mother, the emperor, just follow this example!"

"I'm afraid I can't press it..." The Queen Mother closed her eyes.

"Why, why?" Li Fumei opened her eyes wide.

The queen mother waved her hand: "Master Zhou, please continue."

Zhou Yuanzheng said: "Princess Qiancheng hates evil like a vengeful, and she killed a robber who kidnapped people's wives and daughters and robbed people's property! At that time, the emperor was implementing a strict government, and he was afraid of being blamed. Tens of thousands of people knelt and begged, and people outside the imperial capital jointly signed a letter to save Princess Qiancheng's life... Later, the emperor gave Princess Qiancheng a jade seal. Later, the Yunshui Kingdom in the north came to invade, and Princess Qiancheng wore battle armor, went to battle to kill the enemy, and died for the country... At that time, some cities were not named after the city, and there were several different names for states and towns. To commemorate Princess Qiancheng, the name of the city was unified."

Qin Yunluo slumped on the ground, how could she compare with Princess Qiancheng?

He is a heroine, a hero among women!When she killed someone, the people all over the world pleaded for her; but when she killed someone herself, everyone shouted "same crime as the common people"...

Qin Yunguang said: "Since this is the case, then don't worry about her identity as the eldest princess, and investigate according to law!"

"Empress Dowager!" Li Fumei yelled, "Of the late emperor's eight daughters, there are only two of them left!"

"Brother Emperor! Queen Mother!" Qin Yunluo crawled in front of the Queen Mother, tugged at the hem of her and Qin Yunguang's clothes, and said in a panic, "I was framed! There were so many people at that time, and I didn't even know how my hairpin got into her." neck! Anyway, I didn’t pull it out myself!”

"Queen Mother, you have to trust your son..." She cried, pointing at Zhan Rong and Zhan Jun, "I don't know what their intentions are, they are clearly trying to provoke the relationship between son-in-law and son-in-law, son-in-law and brother-in-law! It's very difficult now. At that time, the son-in-law had a lot of troops, who knows what they are planning?"

When Zhan Jun and Zhan Rong heard this, they were horrified and hurriedly kowtowed: "Your Majesty and the Empress Dowager are enlightened! The Zhan family is only doing business, who can they provoke? We only have money at most, so what's the matter with the son-in-law's soldiers?"

The queen mother said: "It's not impossible. If there was no wedding of the second prince, would your Zhan family be where they are today?"

"That's all in the past!" Zhan Jun said anxiously, "What happened back then was just an accident. If it wasn't for the Second Prince's desire to please women, how could we have a chance to show up as a family? Why do you insist on saying that we have nothing to do with the Second Prince? relationship, that is clearly a frame-up!"

Zhan Rong said angrily: "I don't know who has trouble with the Zhan family and wants to make a fuss about it? The folk woman knows that the Zhan family has made many people jealous, but there is no need to wait so fast! The folk woman is the daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, so he is not afraid of offending her." Have you met the prime minister?"

(End of this chapter)